Shareasale Affiliate Ad Network Review

Shareasale Overall Summary:
Shareasale is an affiliate advertising network that was started in 2000.
We have used it as both a merchant and as an affiliate. We're focusing on
the affiliate side in this review. Be sure to check out our Shareasale
Merchant review. Shareasale has over 700 merchant at the time of this
review. Affiliates will only get paid if the users clicks through their
links and make a sale or sign up to an offer (aka CPA: Cost Per Action).
Shareasale do have a few (only 4 at this time) merchants that offers a CPC(cost
per click) campaigns. Shareasale's user interface could use a revamp as
it's currently a little hard to get around. However our experience with
Shareasale has been good, so we still recommend using Shareasale as an affiliate
and/or merchant.

Shareasale Website Requirements:
Shareasale affiliates must have a valid web site address, and valid email
address in order to participate. Affiliates can differentiate themselves
by having a top-level-domain name, and by providing a description of their
intent to participate on the ShareASale network. Membership to the network
is controlled by shareasale.com, and we may review/reject/accept any application
for any reason. We strive to bring in quality sites to our network, both
affiliate and merchant alike.

Shareasale User Interface: (2)
Shareasale's user interface is their biggest weakness. It's a little confusing
due to a clutter of options. Once you get used to it, you'll be fine. You'll
find everything that you need in a few clicks. Load time is fast. We are
using Shareasale as both a merchant and an affiliate. We had to create two
different accounts to do that. It would have been much easier to manage
everything within one account.

Shareasale Reporting Stats: (4)
The reports are displayed in an easy to read format. Shareasale reports
allows you to choose from your preferred time range, and display the results
by ad type. Pretty basic, but their stats are updated in real time.

Shareasale Ad Formats: (4.5)
Shareasale offers a huge variety of ad formats. It depends on what the merchant
offers, but their system do allow for a lot of flexibility when it comes
to ad sizes. Shareasale is also experimenting with video ads as well.

Shareasale Defaults Ads: (n/a)
Defaults are ads that are shown when the ad network does not have any paying
ads to show. Shareasale has no defaults options since they're an affiliate
ad network.

Shareasale Payments: (3)
Shareasale's payments are mailed out on or around the 20th day of the month,
for the past months commissions, for all affiliates who have reached the
$50 minimum balance. Shareasale
also offers direct deposit as a payment option. Surprising there is no PayPal
option which seems to be the norm for most ad networks.